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A Republican facing incumbent Joshua Miller for District 28, Robert Clarkin is making his first run for the Rhode Island State Senate. This is not his first foray into politics, though, as Clarkin has previously been on the ballot for state representative and Cranston City Council.
The Rhode Island SPCA has worked tirelessly for the last two months recruiting votes for a challenge offered by The Animal Rescue Site — a $25,000 grant that would benefit the animals at the RISPCA.
Now that the presidential election is over and the bar exam is behind him, Matt Jerzyk '99 has decided to sell his influential political blog Rhode Island's Future. In a blog post on Tuesday, Jerzyk announced that he had entered into an agreement to sell the blog and has begun working as an attorney in Providence for DeLuca and Weizenbaum, a personal injury and product liability practice.
After one of the country's most progressive states, California, passed a constitutional amendment overturning the State Supreme Court's ruling permitting gay marriage, it's pretty easy to think that Americans simply aren't tolerant enough to approve gay marriage at the ballot box.
PROVIDENCE - The first time M. Teresa Paiva-Weed came face-to-face with a harsh critic on the campaign trail, she tearfully retreated from the woman's doorstep and told her campaign manager that she was done knocking on doors.
While voter turnout in Rhode Island set a record high last week, local turnout was lower on Block Island than during the last presidential election.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — “When you shop, you’re voting,” yogurt tycoon Gary Hirshberg told an energy-conscious audience at the University of Rhode Island’s Ryan Center yesterday.
Threadless, an online T-shirt company, has launched a new series of T-shirts designed by faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design. The faculty were chosen by President John Maeda, who also chose a theme of "newness" for the series.
The first time M. Teresa Paiva-Weed came face-to-face with a harsh critic on the campaign trail, she tearfully retreated from the woman's Newport doorstep and told her campaign manager that she was done knocking on doors.
Associated Press HARTFORD — A generation ago the Republican Party was the dominant political force in New England, populating the region’s Congressional delegations with moderates like Connecticut’s Lowell P. Weicker Jr. and Rhode Island’s John Chafee.
PROVIDENCE — It was anger and hope that drove Lyn Haiken to this place, Rhode Island’s carpeted epicenter of a campaign that changed history.
